Show PDF inline

Status

Landed in Firefox 14 nightly but didn't make the uplift. Targeting Firefox 15 or 16.

Team

Product manager

Asa Dotzler

Directly Responsible Individual

Alex Limi

Lead engineer

Bill Walker

Security lead

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Privacy lead

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Localization lead

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Accessibility lead

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QA lead

Mihaela Velimiroviciu

UX lead

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Product marketing lead

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Operations lead

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Additional members

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

The current handling of PDFs in Firefox isn't great. The plugin-based renderer on Windows has several issues, and the situation on the Mac is that there really isn't a good renderer available for PDFs.

We want to be able to show PDFs inline in the browser on at least the majority of the platforms we support, and be able to wrap our own UI around it to support things like viewing and saving to disk, etc.